[Patrick] Today, in the Valley, and indeed in the technology sector generally, you [have] two influential movements and sub-sectors are crypto and AI. And I think they have sort of something striking in common, which is they're both cults.
âin both cases, they have fervent believers who, for whom these technologies become sort of part of their self-identity. âDoes that remind you at all of the Homebrew computing movement?
[Bill]: âYeah, there's a lot of similarities in that. âThere were a small group of people who saw what personal computing would become.....
âThere was a small group and some of them were fairly counterculture.... âAnd it had kind of this great feel that we were in on something. âWe're gonna change things.
âThose early machines were so limited in terms of what they could actually do, then as we get discs and we connect them together and the memory size gets to be decent, you know, then the sky's the limit 2 replies
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